Maximizing Foliage Quality in UE5: LOD & Nanite Tips

do you want to take your foliage in aurel engine 5 to the next level in this video I'm going to show you how to manually set the LOD for your foliage so it looks great from any distance and I have to enable the new nanite system on your foliage to increase your performance and FPS we don't relay engine 5's powerful rendering capabilities it's easier than ever to create breathtaking natural environments but if you want your foliage to look great up close and from a distance you need to manually set the LOD in this video I'll show you how to do that step by step and if you're worried about performance don't be it only lend your 5.1's new nanite system you can enable it on your foliage and see a significant increase in performance and FPS not only will your foliage look great but your game will run more smoothly than ever before so if you want to take your foliage to the next level and create realistic stunning environments in order lender 5 then this video is for you get ready to learn some tips and tricks that will make your foliage stand out and keep your players coming back for more so you can see that the grasses which are close to our point of view are looking high quality and realistic but the grasses which are far away from us are looking low quality so in order to fix that I'm going to change the mode to the foliage and here are the meshes and the grass meshes that I've used in my project so I'm going to select one of them and let's scroll down and double click on this mesh and you can see the editor window of this mesh and let me tell you something I think this is one of the bugs of oral Legend 5.1 because this editor window has some issues in lighting of the meshes so I'm going to change the lighting mode from Lids to outlets so we can better see our mesh okay here I have my mesh and from this distance I am set on the second level of detail and as I move closer to my mesh you can see that the level of detail is decreasing to zero so it means that 0 is the highest quality of a mesh and I think now you can better understand why you have such flickering areas in your projects on your grass meshes so it is time to fix that as you can see here we have a section called LOD picker and I'm going to check this custom option and let's uncheck all of these lods and after that all you need to do is to set this LOD numbers to 1. and let's apply changes and you can see the results well obviously the problem isn't completely solved because we fix the LOD of one of the grasses that we used in our project so what I'm going to do is to select the second grass mesh and do the same process on this one let's go to the LOD picker and check this custom let's uncheck the lods and after that sets the number of lods to one and apply changed and we are much more close to our desire results and finally the third one to fix the problem let's uncheck the LEDs and set the number of lods to one apply change okay by doing that you can see that all of the grass meshes that we used in our project are looking and appearing on high quality and the zero level of detail before we dive into enabling the nanite system on foliage I just want to remind you to hit that subscribe button and join our community of Unreal Engine enthusiasts by subscribing you'll never miss out on the latest tips tricks and tutorials to help you take your projects to the next level so don't forget to hit that subscribe button and let's keep creating amazing things together okay now it is time to enabling the nanite system to increase our FPS and have more optimized projects in Unreal Engine 5 and you can see that here we have a section called nanite settings and all you need to do is to check this enable nanite support option and let's apply change and you can see that we have increased our FPS and I mean frame per second in our project by doing on one of the meshes that we use in our foliage and you have to do um all of the meshes that you've used in your project so you will have more optimized and smooth projects all right thanks for watching don't miss out on the other videos on the channel to keep improving your only engine skills see you in the next one

Channel: CIVAR

Views: 16,081

Keywords: ue5, unreal engine, unreal engine 5, unreal engine 5.2, foliage unreal engine 5, nanite system, game development, game design, LOD, tips and tricks, how to, archviz, animation, cinematic, optimize, vegetation, environment design, lighting, game graphics, realistic, 3d art, ue5 tutorial, unreal engine 5.1, unreal engine 5.3, 3d modeling, level design, epic games, tutorial, vfx

Id: 4wxgcv89u5A

Length: 5min 24sec (324 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 19 2023